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There are 26 fabulous small charities and 22 companies that support dozens of charities in our Charity Christmas Market. From Cancer Research UK to tiny local charities doing fabulous work, you'll find lots of festive ideas.
Feel good by doing good, as you shop for charity Christmas presents
We have everything from festive food, drink and clothes to cats and dogs, parrots and penguins and just about every other cause too. The charity sector is in crisis, with increasing numbers of charities closing, but every £1 you spend will make a difference, thank you. We have a separate page for Charity Christmas Fundraising Ideas.
Small charities are special!
They don't have the resources or reach of the larger charities but because they're small, even the smallest donation has a real impact.
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Better still, with the majority volunteer led, they don't have the overheads of the larger charities, so virtually all of your donation has a direct impact on a cause you care about.
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I've spent £100+ on them (so far) - join me. Their prices are really low, with some purchases less than £2. Perfect for your Secret Santa.
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| Name | Cause | Fabulous Presents to Buy! |
| Love Well UK CIC | Women | Women experiencing disproportionate disadvantage who want to move into further education, training or employment. Christmas gifts: candles, bath oils, reed diffusers and bath salts |
| Dogs for Autism | Disability, Dogs | Visit their online shop for Christmas cards, merchandise, sponsorship, wish list |
| Cardiff People First | Disability | Learning Disability self advocacy. T shirts, bags, hoodies - all designed by people with a learning disability. |
| The Moving on Project | Mental Health, Young People | Counselling and Mental Health Support for 11-25 year olds. Christmas cards and wish list. |
| Service Dogs UK | Veterans, First Responders & Dogs | Assistance Dogs for Armed Forces and Emergency Services personnel with PTSD. Sponsor an assistance dog in training |
| The Brain Charity | Disability | Christmas cards, dementia-friendly gifts |
| Jessie’s Fund | Young People, Disability, Music | Christmas cards, merchandise, musical instruments |
| Venture Arts | Disability and Art | 2025 Calendars, cards, merchandise, prints, donations |
| Feline Care Cat Rescue | Cats | Christmas Cards, Wish List, Ebay Store |
| Morndyke Parrot Sanctuary | Parrots | Sponsor a parrot OR book an experience day |
| The Bus Shelter Dorset | Homelessness | Christmas Trees sold on site - Weymouth. Don't live in Weymouth? Not a problem. Why not use their Don't Send Me a Card account to send eCards and donate the cost of the cards and stamps to The Bus Shelter |
| Comfort International | Poverty, Genocide and Conflict | Handmade African crafts, cards, calendars, books and social impact gifts |
| St Augustine's Abbey | Roman Catholic Activities | A Benedictine monastery in Surrey. Christmas stocking fillers: monk-made beeswax skin creams and lip balms, Christmas cards and religious gifts |
| UK Antarctic Heritage Trust | Heritage and Environment | An online Penguin shop! |
| Kids Club Kampala | Children, Poverty | Christmas cards, alternative gift cards and hand made Ugandan crafts. |
| Ashford and Tenterden Umbrella | Mental Health | A really inexpensive Amazon wish list of materials for their activities, which include crafts, singing and an art class. |
| Arkbound Foundation | Disadvantaged People | Needs some books for Christmas? Buy them from this Bristol based publisher. They're as social enterprise who support people from disadvantaged backgrounds into the world of publishing and writing. |
| Kids for Kids | Children if Sudan | You can buy goats, hens, donkeys, seeds, soap and other essentials to support children in Darfur. |
| Somerville Heart Foundation | Health | A small national charity who support people born with a heart condition, their online shop has a variety of heart-related books, merchandise, Christmas cards, bags, stockings, key rings and handmade gifts. |
| Orchard Trust | Learning and Physical Disabilities | Fabulous Presents - supporting disabled people with residential care and day service on an accessible smallholding. Visit the online shop for animal sponsorship gifts, Celebration Tree leaves and Christmas cards. |
| Down Syndrome UK | Learning Disability | Spread some positivity about Down syndrome by celebrating with DSUK! Christmas cards designed by artists with Down syndrome, merchandise and gifts |
| Prism | Learning Disability, Neurodivergence, & Art | Cards and prints featuring our Prism Artists’ designs. When you buy from the Prism Shop, you creatively and financially support our learning disabled and neurodivergent artists. |
| Amma Birth Companions | Women, Families, Health | Hand-blended herbal remedies designed to nurture and support wellbeing, particularly for parents and caregivers. Our range includes drinks, bathing products and aromatherapy remedies. Every purchase helps Amma provide essential support for women & birthing people who would otherwise give birth alone. |
| Art Against Knives | Young People, Justice | A great online art gallery with prints for sale. They support supports young people at risk of violent crime. |
| Thyroid UK | Thyroid Disease and Related Conditions | Fabulous presents to buy! : Christmas cards, Greetings Cards, Awareness Products, Books and pretty butterfly pins. |
| Sreepur Village | Single Mothers & Children in Bangladesh | Visit their online shop for artisan cards, notebooks and crafts. |
| Tom Bowdidge Foundation | Youth Cancer | Visit their online shop for all sort of cards, decorations and Christmas stuff you must have. |
| African Children's Fund | Young People, Africa, Poverty | They provide education, food support for girls and legal aid. E Bay charity shop with great Christmas cards to buy. |
We have all thing's penguin, products that any moggie would be delighted to find in its Christmas stocking and beautiful products made by the women Love Well CIC supports.
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Last but certainly not least Venture Arts, St Augustine's Benedictine Monastery and Service Dogs UK.
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The Charity Excellence Help Finder enables charities to find companies that sell goods and services to raise funds for charity. I've extracted a selection to enable you to find companies you might wish to buy presents from and, in doing so, help those charities and send a message that ethical companies are valued by customers.
| Sea Change Wines | Based in Leatherhead (Surrey), every bottle sold helps fund global ocean conservation projects, such as protecting and rehabilitating marine life, educating current and future generations on the impact of plastic pollution, or supporting research programmes looking at innovative ways to improve and preserve our oceans’ ecosystems. Since their launch in 2018, they say they have raised in excess of €350,000 for their charity partners. |
| L’Occitane en Provence | Beauty and skincare products. Their foundation's 6 key areas are: Respecting Biodiversity, Supporting Producers, Reducing Waste, Empowering Women, Caring for Sight and Celebrating Craftsmanship. They make about 20 grants a year globally. Projects focus on solidarity, nature, disability, and local heritage and are suggested and funded by staff themselves. They also bring out charity products each year, with profits donated to NGO projects combatting avoidable blindness and promoting the emancipation of women. In 2018, over €1,000,000 was raised this way. They have 9 UK shops - London and Home counties, including Bicester Village, High Wycombe, Watford, Milton Keynes, St Albans, Richmond and Windsor. |
| UNIQLO | They've done quite a bit over the year's but don't seem to have a charity page, possibly because it tends to be big, high profile projects. They've donated 5p from the charge of paper bags in store. The PEACE FOR ALL project donates the profit from t shirt sales to international organisations supporting those affected by violence, discrimination, armed conflict, and poverty. They've also encouraged recycling of unwanted UNIQLO products donated by customers and given to a charity. |
| Jutexpo | Jute, juco and cotton reusable shopping bags, including by recycling. They say that they have provided many charities with bags over the years; Marie Curie, RNLI, Royal British Legion, Woodland Trust, Help for Heroes. For Meningitis Now, the bags were priced at £4 for pouch bags and £6 for large juco bags with 40p from the sale of each pouch bag and 50p from the sale of each large juco bag being donated. |
| In The Style | A UK-based online fashion retailer, they seem to collaborate with influencers and celebrities to create charity collections. For instance, they partnered with Jac Jossa to launch a collection benefiting Women’s Aid. They've also supported CRUK, Bowel Babe, Bee Manchester, Family Action and the Samaritans. |
| Oddballs | They support a number of charities and, since 2014, have donated £850k. They aim to donate over £1,000,000 by 2024. They stress their inclusivity and breaking down the usual stigma associated with mental and physical health. Their cause related items include quite a few health charities but also others. |
| Harkness Roses | British rose breeders, they often partner with charities, through rose naming or rose sales. They seem to support quite a range of causes, including health (CRUK, MND Association, Dementia UK and the Menopause Charity), but have also had roses in support of conservation (RSPB and Born Free), sport and veterans (Chelsea Pensioners). |
| Emma Bridgewater | Emma Bridgewater support charities with Charity edition mugs. Their charity partners get with a donation for every mug sold. They don't indicate any priorities in supporting charity but most have been health related and 2 involved gardens. |
| Funky Pigeon UK | Funky Pigeon is an online platform for personalised greeting cards and gifts. They've created charity cards for various charities, including the RVS, Tree Nation and MQ Mental Health, and have raised £250,000 for Cancer Research UK through their “pennies in the basket” scheme, which allows customers to donate at checkout. They don't have a charity page on their website. |
| Birchall Tea | London based, Birchall’s black teas are sourced exclusively from East Africa (including Kenya, Rwanda, and Tanzania), where the organisation has supported good causes to help communities and wildlife for over a decade, including Tusk and Virunga National Park (eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo). They donate 5pm for each pack of a particular type of tea sold. No specific charity page - look at the sustainability section. |
| Cupsmith | Speciality coffees, luxury hot chocolates and organic teas, which are sold by Selfridges, Waitrose, Ocado and many independent shops and cafes in the UK. They only support one charity, Music as Therapy International, with a donation made for every packet sold. They also feature the charity’s logo on the packet to help introduce and promote the charity’s work to new audiences. |
| Bare Kind | The bamboo sock manufacturer donates 10% of the profit on each pair of socks to an animal charity. They say they have 35 partners so far. They are a B Corp, which isn't a non profit but is an ethical company accreditation. |
| Lush | They support human rights and social justice; animal rights and environmental protection through charitable products raising money for particular causes that are pertinent at any given time. For example, their Watermelon soap raising funds for children in Palestine. In 2024, they plan to launch ‘Keystone Products’, inspired by species that act as ecosystem engineers, regenerating habitats for other species. Each Keystone product will raise money for a project in a priority landscape around the world, and we’ll have at least one for sale at any time. |
| Farfetch | Online global company selling luxury clothing, accessories, and homeware from designer brands like Prada, Gucci, and Versace1. In the UK they have 2 locations in London and a donate £10 and enjoy 10% off offer for a number of charities. Most are LGBTQI+. They also have a partnership with Thrift+, the second-hand clothing platform, to offer customers to donate unwanted items to charities and receive credits to use on their site. |
| White Stuff | 100+ UK wide stores, it gives 1% of profits to charity. As at 2024, they were working with Home-Start UK. They've also donated products, such as computers and fabrics. According to the Charity Commission entry for their foundation, they work in England, Wales, Guernsey, India, Jersey, Northern Ireland and Scotland. In the year to Apr 23, spend was £126k. In 2024, they created a charity tote bag for arts charity Create, with 100% of the profits going to the charity. |
| Sweaty Betty | To empower women and girls from every background to get active, and stay active, for life. It's an independent registered charity working across the UK and US. They provide support for schools and grassroots organisations, and online. Spend in year ending Dec 22 was £597k. They've partnered on issues such as sports bras and hijabs. Quite a few stores, mainly southern England. |
| Y.O.U Underwear | They donate underwear and support menstrual hygiene projects but they also appear to be supporting a breast cancer charity. Their main partner is the great Scottish charity Smalls for All (with their buy-one give-one model) but they have other partners, including in East Africa. |
| TK Maxx and Homesense | They have a long standing charity partnership with CRUK (young people), raising money through customer donations, associate fundraising and sales of selected products in addition to the Give Up Clothes For Good campaign. They help vulnerable children and young people in local communities achieve their potential, focusing on challenges with health, education and poverty. They partner with local and national charities. TK Maxx has about 600 stores and Homesense about 80 in the UK and Ireland. |
| Bawbags Underware | If you're Scottish you'll get it, if not, I won't translate but, if you're a cancer charity, you may wish to know that they have partnerships with cancer charities. |
| Nespresso UK | Home coffee machines, coffee capsules, and accessories, employs staff across various locations. In 2024, they created a charity partnership with social enterprise Change Please, donating £1 million to support homelessness relief. Customers can now choose the Nespresso for Change Please blend to contribute to this cause. They also support local communities through its Community Fund – climate, poverty and homelessness, neighbourhood, and sustainable consumption and production. It has 33 stores in the UK. |
| TOAST Coffee | Their Coffee for a Coffee donates coffee to causes within the community. Every time you purchase a coffee, they match it by giving away a cup of coffee to someone in need. They say they are committed to donating thousands of coffees a month to food banks, shelters, community centres, or communal events. They have shops in Braintree, Chelmsford, Sudbury, Witham and Colchester, in Essex. |
| Ray & Scott Jewellers Guernsey | Their Diamond Dream scheme was initially set up in 2022 to celebrate their diamond anniversary. They've continued it since and donated more than £200,000 to local charities. Customers were given up to 20% off all diamond jewellery, excluding watches, with a minimum of 2.5% being donated to charity. They could then choose to donate more if they wished. They hold ad-hoc events throughout the year and apply the Diamond Dream to benefit a nominated charity. I found a 2024 grant of £10k. |
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